A seasoned change-management professional who has successfully straddled various management roles within a number of sectors, Patrick Vella has extensive experience in public sector reform, starting with the Public Service Reform Commission, which charted the way for a modern public sector.

“Following a stint within the private sector, I was lured back to the public sector in a corporate role within the Government’s public service reform entity, the MSU (now MITA), overseeing annual budgets of about Lm8 million (circa €20 million). Thereafter, I carried out public service management consultancy within the Government’s Management and Efficiency Unit, notably co-drafting Malta’s first e-Government strategy in 2000, which laid the foundation for eGovernment services,” he says.

Mr Vella, who has a BA (Hons) Degree in Public Administration from the University of Malta, joined the Malta Communications Authority in 2001 and was responsible for the strategic/business planning/performance measurement function. 

He also set up, and currently manages, the competition analysis of electronic communications and postal markets. Periodically, he has also been entrusted with the management of ‘ad hoc’ strategic projects, notable examples being:

• The setting up of the electronic communications authorisation framework in the newly liberalised regulatory environment (2003)

• The setting up of the postal sector regulatory framework (2004),

• Digital TV transmission policy (2005/2007),

• The Terrestrial Television digital switchover (2011),

• The postal regulatory framework review (2012/2013),

• The transposition of the EU Broadband Cost Reduction Directive (2015/6) and

• The transposition of the European Electronic Communications Code (2020/21).

Mr Vella is also the Malta representative on the European Commission's Communications Committee (COCOM).

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